Necromancer - Power Minion Master

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Overview

Variant of Reaper - Power Minion Master for PvE players without access to the Heart of Thorns expansion. While this build is inferior to the Reaper variant, it's still extremely powerful in open world and allows you to steamroll most content.

Skill Bar

Dagger/WarhornHealingUtilityElite

Axe/Dagger

Weapon Variants

Focus deals marginally more damage than dagger offhand, but you lose the condition cleanse from

.

You can carry a Staff for tagging mobs in open world farming.

Skill Variants

deals more damage than

but can't move and gives you less stacks of

.

Specializations

Variants

- if conditions are a problem.

- if you're having trouble surviving, or if there aren't many enemies to proc

.

Equipment

Ascended gear and stat infusions are not required; you can use exotic gear with the same stats.

Standard Equipment

The Standard Variant uses similar gear to the Reaper - Power DPS build for fractals and raids. This makes it a good general-purpose gear set and is the gear that most players should aim for.

6x

Superior Rune of the Scholar

Optimal Equipment

The Optimal Variant is the best possible gear for this build. It's overkill in most cases, and you should only get it if you have spare gold or you don’t care about fractals and raids.

6x

Superior Rune of Strength

18x

Mighty +5 Agony Infusion

Variants

provides even more sustain at the cost of damage.

Consumables

If you're having trouble you can use the following consumables:

Food

Bowl of Curry Butternut Squash Soup

Bowl of Curry Butternut Squash Soup

Nourishment (30 m):

+100 Precision+70 Ferocity+10% Experience from Kills

Consumable

,

Plate of Truffle Steak

Plate of Truffle Steak

Nourishment (30m):

+100 power+70 precision+10% Experience from kills

Consumable

, or

Dragon's Breath Bun

Dragon's Breath Bun

Nourishment (20 m):

+200 power for 30s after killing an enemy+70 Ferocity+10% Experience from Kills

Consumable

for more damage.

Bowl of Orrian Truffle and Meat Stew

Bowl of Orrian Truffle and Meat Stew

Nourishment (30 m):

100% chance to gain might when you dodge.+40% to your Endurance refill rate.+10 Experience from kills

The Minion Master that started it all. While it's since been eclipsed by its big brother Reaper, which boasts even better survivability and twice as much damage, core necromancer is still very effective and easy to play in open world.

it is a very good class for beginners very high sustain which is always a plus for many instances and is jut overall a good class to play since your minions will be doing the tanking for you most of the time

There's a reason minion mancers have been around so long: the build works well, even if it may be slower than other builds. For core players, especially casual ones, a build like this is excellent as it allows their minions to do their work for them, and they can choose to contribute their own damage too.

Of course, some people say that offhand dagger is useless here, but that's missing the point - offhand dagger isn't here to do damage, it's here to condi cleanse, blind, and apply weakness if needed, which will go towards helping keep your minions alive.